THE HEAD OF THE EU OBSERVATION MISSION COULD NOT BE CLEARER. LE CHEF DE LA MISSION D’OBSERVATION DE L’UE NE POUVAIT ETRE PLUS CLAIRE

Diplomacy is at the same time about international relations, sociology, and the science of behavior and language. On the basis of judicious verbal formulas and measured gestures, the good diplomat will be able to clearly convey a message that is not ambiguous, without alarming the people. It is this exercise that was carried out by the European and Bulgarian MEP Mariya Gabriel, who headed the European Union Observers Mission in Gabon.

In answering the questions of Christophe Boisbouvier of RFI, with professionalism, finesse and elegance, she succeeded while staying above political ideologies, with measure and on the basis of facts, to make everyone understand in simple terms that the decision of the Constitutional Court announcing Ali Bongo as the winner of the presidential election of August 2016 was fictional. But in a refined language, she also said that the application of sanctions against Gabon was not part of her mission but of other EU bodies.

Dear readers, we are in a relay race, the EOM-EU has presented its report, and it is now up to the enforcement authorities in charge of applying the Cotonou agreements to decide on the measures to be taken against the Ali Bongo regime. This is the already ongoing work of another European parliamentarian, Jo Leinen.

When Alain Claude Bilié By Nze, Ali Bongo’s Government Spokesman, said that the report did not proclaim Jean Ping explicitly the winner, he is making a bad faith argument, because Mariya Gabriel was clear: if the figures giving Ali Bongo the win are equivocal, if the compilation of the results in eight of the nine provinces gave Jean Ping a large victory, it means that without the fraud in Haut-Ogooué, Jean Ping is necessarily the winner of this election. It's elementary!

Our role is to continue to work to ensure that all forces of synergy leading to the dismissal of Ali Bongo are joined.

English version What will Ali Bongo do in Cuba? What does he seek with the Cubans? Angola has the best army in Africa and one of the best in the developing world. The Angolan army overcame Unita, which was armed by the US and trained by the apartheid regime, which was a nuclear power. The Angolan army defeated the South African army. All this was possible because the Angolan army was supervised by Cuban instructors. Between 1979 and 1991, Cuba deployed 50,000 civilians and 370,000 soldiers in Angola. This represented almost 5% of the total Cuban population. Angola reimbursed Cuba by supplying oil free of charge. It was a win-win arrangement. Ali Bongo wants to survive politically. He feels cornered from every side. He knows that only military brute force could save his regime. Therefore he goes to Cuba to seek military support that he disguises this as economic and cultural exchange. He wants military instructors to strengthen his military capability to remain in power.

English version Ali Bongo was certainly inspired by his friend Erdogan, the Turkish president who organized a coup against himself, obviously missed, to allow him to launch his army against the opposition in the name of the fight against terrorism. Ali Bongo has been inspired by the idea, staging Aba'a Minko, as a pseudo plotter attempting a false coup that should serve Ali Bongo to clean up his opponents. Ali Bongo wants to create false terrorist events to declare a state of emergency and portray himself as a great fighter against terrorism to win the sympathy of France and the USA. But the Gabonese people are now clear-sighted and see plainly that all this is stitched by the regime. We will not give up!